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M. STRAUSS, SEA'I 0R CUSHION.

No. 547.690. Patented Oct. 8, 1895.

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' UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIcE.

MORRIS STRAUSS, on ,NEW YORK, N. Y.

SEAT'OR CUSHION,

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 547,690, dated October 8, 1895. Application filed June 8, 1895- Sensible 552,118. (No model-l To all whom it map-concern:

Be it known that I, MORRIS STRAUSS, a subject of the Czar of Russia, at "present residing in New York, in the county and State of New York, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Seats or Cushions, of which thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description.

' My. invention relates to an improved construction whereby seats or cushions may be -upholstered more readily and cheaply than ployed.

The invention consists in the particularco'n truction and arrangement of parts, as hereinafter fully described, and pointed out in the claims. I

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a plan view showing a sofa constructed according with the arrangement of parts hitherto .em-

' ready to be upholstered. Fig. 2 is a front elethe inner ends of the vation thereof with parts in section, and Fig. 3 is'a bottom plan view thereof.

As illustrated in the drawings, the sofa or other article of furniture has a frame A, which may be of substantially the usual construction, and to the sides of this frame and at ,the bottom thereof I secure metal ba'uds B, which preferably extend in two directions at right angles to eachother, the said bands at their 1 inner ends being bent-up to form hooksor eyes, as will be seen best in Fig. 2. The inner ends of the bands B are vengaged with the lower convolutions of spiral or coiled supporting springs C, and these springs-are also connected with one another mymeans of horizontallydisposed coiled springs D, whose ends are engaged with the lower convolutions of the upright coiled springs (l in a similar manner to bands B. Thus in the example shown the rear coiledspring O is held at four points at over,'there 'is a yielding or elastic finish between all the saidcoiled springs O. The up per ends of the coiled springs O are connected to the woven-wire support E, which is secured at its edges to the upperend of the frame A, with the exception of its front edge.

to my improvement and its bottom, and, more- In order to properly hold the front edge of the woven-wire support E, I provide horizontal coiled springsF, secured to the sides of the frame A and extending along the edge of the said wire-support. The innerv ends of the springs F are connected by'means of a rodor wire G. Asa further means of strengthening the front edge I provide on the lower sure.

face of the'wire-support E two'wires-H, extending longitudinally and slightly rearwardly from the front edges of the frame A' and connected at their center by a horizontally-coiled spring I. The wires H interme- 'di'ate of the spring I'and frame A have counections J extending forwardly and secured to the free edge of the wire-support E. (See Fig. I.) The back and the arms of the sofa.-

may likewise be provided with a woven-wiresupport E and E respectively,' it being understood that the ordinary upholstery 'is stitched or secured to thesaid wire-support in substantially the same manner inwhich it is, now secured to the'sp i ral'supporting It will be understood that in an article-0f furniture having 110 back proper-that is, an article having two free edges instead of one,

of the wires G and II willbe duplicated at such free edges, such duplicate arrangement is not deemed necessary.-

It will be seen that the improved construc tion affords a very regular surface for the attachment of the burlap-which forms a part of the upholstery; coiled supporting-springs O is a very strong also that the connection of thethe arrangementof the springs F and I and and separate illustrationlof' and elastic one, and also that the said connction is such thatany one of the springs, C may be detached separately and replaced with a new one, if necessary, without any necessity of undoing any other connections but those which'serveto fasten the particular spring it is desired to remove. The new elasticsupport for the free edge also is of very great practical advantage, since with such arrangement of parts either edge will always remain horizontal, and thus a good appearance of the article will be preserved.

It will be obvious that the hersinbefore described constructions are applicable to seats and cushions of every description, and that the invention is not limited to the exact construction shown.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent=- Y 1. In a seator cushion, the combination of a frame, bands extending inwardly therefrom, coiled supporting springs connected to the bands, an upholstery support on top of the said springs, and coiled springs connecting the lower con'volutions of the said. supporting springs, substantially as described.

2. The coihbination of a fran1e,-the upholstery support, the supporting-springs engaging said support from below, means for conmeeting the lower ends of said springs to the frame, and horizontally disposed coiled springs connecting the lower convolutions of the said su'pport hlg springs, substantially as described.

3; The combination of. a frame, the woven wire upholsterysupport coiled supporting springs engaging the support yielding supports for the frame projecting inwardly from the frame, and eoiled'springs connecting the lower portions of the said supportingsprings, substantially as described.

4; The combination with a frame, the upholstery support, and a yielding support for the front edge of the upholstery support, of

an auxiliary yielding support in the rear of the front edge of the upholstery support and connected therewith, said auxiliary support, comprising wires connected by a spring, substantially as described.

5. The combination of the frame, the upholstery support, the wires extending longitudinally under the said support and toward the edge thereof, the coiled springs connecting the inner ends of the said wires, and connections extending forwardly from the wires to-the free edge of the upholstery support, substantially asdescribed.

' 6. The combination of the .frame, the up holstery supporthaving a free or loose edge, the spring extending longitudinally of the said free edge and secured to the frame, a connection between the inner ends of the said spring, said connection being in-engagem ent with the free edge of the support, the wires arranged .under the support longitudinally thereof, the coiled spring connecting the inner ends of the wires, and connections from v the wires extending forward to the free edge of the upholstery support, substantially as described.

MORRIS STRAUSS.

\Vitnesses: JOHN LOTKA,

G. SEDGWICK. 

